Summary: Students will first take a quiz on the first three sections of Chapter 11. Students will watch a video that shows the relationships between traits, genes, and chromosomes, and the structure of DNA. We will then review the process of mitosis by having each student explain one part of the process and writing it on the board.
Objectives: Students will review the process of mitosis and explain the purpose, procedure, and results. Students will complete a 100 point quiz on the first 3 sections of Chapter 11.
Instruction: Opening: Students first take the quiz as soon as they come in the room. They will be given 25 minutes to complete it, and then I will start reviewing mitosis and introducing meiosis.
"We've been looking at a very macroscopic view of genetics for the past few lessons. In other words, we can see the passage of traits by looking at parents and offspring. Now we're going to dive a little deeper into the microscopic view of how genes on chromosomes get passed from parents to offspring. We've already learned about the process of mitosis, which is cell division of nonreproductive cells. I think it will help you understand the process of meiosis better if we review mitosis, but first we're going to watch a short Bill Nye video that explains the relationships between traits, genes, and chromosomes."
Middle: Students will see a 7 minute Youtube video of Bill Nye the Science Guy. He explains how genes code for traits that get passed from parents to offspring. He shows through microscopic pictures that genes are located within chromosomes. Bill Nye also shows the structure of DNA and how it relates to genes and chromosomes. This will be helpful because we have not covered DNA in depth in this class yet. It is an entertaining video that will hold students' attention, especially after just taking a quiz. We will have a short discussion about traits, genes and chromosomes and draw a concept map on the chalkboard after the video.
Review of mitosis: I will go over the purpose, the procedure, and the result of mitosis. I will assign each group of students to a phase of mitosis. The groups will be: purpose of mitosis, interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, and the results. Students will work with their groups to develop a picture or a few sentences to describe their category and then write it on the board.
Closing:
After students write their explanation on the board, we will spend the rest of the class reviewing each of the categories and activating students' prior knowledge of mitosis. I will tell them that they should get their quiz back in a few days.
Homework: Read the first few pages of 11.4 and familiarize yourself with meiosis. Next class we will be creating a model that displays each phase of meiosis.
Summary: Students will first take a quiz on the first three sections of Chapter 11. Students will watch a video that shows the relationships between traits, genes, and chromosomes, and the structure of DNA. We will then review the process of mitosis by having each student explain one part of the process and writing it on the board.
Objectives:
Students will review the process of mitosis and explain the purpose, procedure, and results.
Students will complete a 100 point quiz on the first 3 sections of Chapter 11.
Materials:
Quiz paper
Bill Nye Youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPk_V1KkMuU&feature=related
Instruction:
Opening:
Students first take the quiz as soon as they come in the room. They will be given 25 minutes to complete it, and then I will start reviewing mitosis and introducing meiosis.
"We've been looking at a very macroscopic view of genetics for the past few lessons. In other words, we can see the passage of traits by looking at parents and offspring. Now we're going to dive a little deeper into the microscopic view of how genes on chromosomes get passed from parents to offspring. We've already learned about the process of mitosis, which is cell division of nonreproductive cells. I think it will help you understand the process of meiosis better if we review mitosis, but first we're going to watch a short Bill Nye video that explains the relationships between traits, genes, and chromosomes."
Middle:
Students will see a 7 minute Youtube video of Bill Nye the Science Guy. He explains how genes code for traits that get passed from parents to offspring. He shows through microscopic pictures that genes are located within chromosomes. Bill Nye also shows the structure of DNA and how it relates to genes and chromosomes. This will be helpful because we have not covered DNA in depth in this class yet. It is an entertaining video that will hold students' attention, especially after just taking a quiz. We will have a short discussion about traits, genes and chromosomes and draw a concept map on the chalkboard after the video.
Review of mitosis: I will go over the purpose, the procedure, and the result of mitosis.
I will assign each group of students to a phase of mitosis. The groups will be: purpose of mitosis, interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, and the results. Students will work with their groups to develop a picture or a few sentences to describe their category and then write it on the board.
Closing:
After students write their explanation on the board, we will spend the rest of the class reviewing each of the categories and activating students' prior knowledge of mitosis. I will tell them that they should get their quiz back in a few days.
Homework: Read the first few pages of 11.4 and familiarize yourself with meiosis. Next class we will be creating a model that displays each phase of meiosis.
Assessments:
1. Summative assessment- Quiz